Events
POETRY STUDIO: Negative Capability, the power of not-knowing
Join us for our Saturday Studio to write poems harnessing the power of not-knowing
PS Workshop Group September
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry Society: National Poetry Day Workshop - Poetry & Play with Shazea Quraishi
What might happen if we let chance, spontaneity and playfulness shape our poetry?
In this special free National Poetry Day workshop, we’ll embrace playful experimentation, unleashing our imagination through invented and unconventional poetic forms to write poems that revel in creativity and embrace unpredictability.
POETRY STUDIO: On Form ~ Syllabics & Tanka
Join us to explore the creative possibilities of syllabic forms including the Tanka
PS Workshop Group October
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
POETRY STUDIO: The Dark ~ pleasures & possibilities
Join us to read, write and explore the pleasures and possibilities of the dark through poems.
PS Workshop Group November
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
PS Workshop Group December
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
POETRY STUDIO: Persona ~ Re-imagining myth & fairytale
Join us as we explore the possibilities of re-imagining myths and fairytales
PS Workshop Group August
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
PS Workshop Group July
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 10/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 10/10
POETRY STUDIO: Father, Mother
Now that he’s dead I’m waiting for Fatherbird to visit me
in a dream.
Months and years have passed.
- from The Afterlife of Fatherbird by Moniza Alvi
In Blackbird, Bye Bye, Moniza Alvi creates the figures of Motherbird and Fatherbird to pay homage to her parents, and find her way through loss. Close or distant, present or absent, there are innumerable ways to approach these most personal and singular relationships.
We will taking inspiration from poets including Patrick McGuiness, Laura Scott, Ghassan Zaqtan, Mimi Khalvati, Raymond Carver, Zbigniew Herbert, Moniza Alvi and more.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 9/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 8/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 7/10
PS Workshop Group June
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 6/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 5/10
POETRY STUDIO: The Tenderness of Things
For Francis Ponge, the French surrealist, essayist and ‘poet of things’, all objects yearn to express themselves… They mutely await the coming of the word so that they may reveal the hidden depts of their being.
We will read poems on a pebble, a candle, a boat, a yellow glove… and we will write our own object poems taking inspiration from poets including Wislawa Szymborska, Charles Simic, Craig Raine, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein and Naomi Shihab Nye.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 4/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 3/10
PS Workshop Group May
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 2/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 1/10
Poetry Studio: OULIPO
Poetry Studio: OULIPO Potential & Possibilities
Join us to embrace the endless possibilities of constraints to generate new poems
PS Workshop Group April
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry Studio: The Prose Poem
Poetry Studio: The Prose Poem
Join us to explore the possibilities of that most elusive of forms, the prose poem.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 1/10
PS Workshop Group March
March Workshop
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 1/10
PS Workshop Group February
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry Studio: The Dark: Pleasures & Possibilities
Rescheduled from November 11 2024
Poetry Studio ‘Connecting with Translation’.